Paris. 80 Photographies
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- SIGNED Softcover
- Paris: Jeanne Walter, 1931
Paris: Jeanne Walter, 1931. Limited first edition. Softcover. vg+ to near fine. 1/1000. Quarto. 44 unpaginated double-sided leaves (including 80 pages of photographic images). Photo-illustrated wrappers with blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Glassine wrappers and modern mylar. Copy #286 from a limited edition of 1000 copies, numbered on the colophon at the back. Introductory text by acclaimed French modern artist Fernand Léger.
This acclaimed photo-book is a "revolutionary work which introduced Moï Ver to the world is a striking tour de force of photomontage utilizing Bauhaus style photography and design. Its 80 pages of avant-garde photomontages evoke a modern form of Paris through his visualizations. The method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaleidoscopic layering and frenzied repetitiveness, emphasizes an experimental approach to picture-construction. In this sense, Paris remains the author's quintessential avant-garde book object. The jacket's front cover superimposes factory smokestacks upon a classic stone colonnade, thus setting up familiar juxtapositions: art and industry, antique and modern, beauty and banality. Moï Ver's Paris is a metropolis pulsating with fast-paced daily life, moving almost out of control. Cobblestone streets, bustling crowds, facades, railway tracks, bridges, the glittering river, and countless monuments shift and shatter here" - (Andrew Roth: "The Book of 101 Books," pp. 70-71).
A highly influential and groundbreaking photographic artist's book of the 20th century, the techniques utilized by Moi Ver powerfully convey the kinetic energy and chaos of the Parisian cityscape.
Text in French.
Light chipping and closed tears to the head and tail of the spine, with light rubbing to the front hinge and the very edges of the wrappers. Interior with very minor smudging to the endpapers. Wrappers in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. Bibliographic references: Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pp. 70-71; Parr/Badger, v1 p.128-129; Open Book p.100-101; Auger 174.
This acclaimed photo-book is a "revolutionary work which introduced Moï Ver to the world is a striking tour de force of photomontage utilizing Bauhaus style photography and design. Its 80 pages of avant-garde photomontages evoke a modern form of Paris through his visualizations. The method in which Moï Ver chose to present his material, in its kaleidoscopic layering and frenzied repetitiveness, emphasizes an experimental approach to picture-construction. In this sense, Paris remains the author's quintessential avant-garde book object. The jacket's front cover superimposes factory smokestacks upon a classic stone colonnade, thus setting up familiar juxtapositions: art and industry, antique and modern, beauty and banality. Moï Ver's Paris is a metropolis pulsating with fast-paced daily life, moving almost out of control. Cobblestone streets, bustling crowds, facades, railway tracks, bridges, the glittering river, and countless monuments shift and shatter here" - (Andrew Roth: "The Book of 101 Books," pp. 70-71).
A highly influential and groundbreaking photographic artist's book of the 20th century, the techniques utilized by Moi Ver powerfully convey the kinetic energy and chaos of the Parisian cityscape.
Text in French.
Light chipping and closed tears to the head and tail of the spine, with light rubbing to the front hinge and the very edges of the wrappers. Interior with very minor smudging to the endpapers. Wrappers in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. Bibliographic references: Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pp. 70-71; Parr/Badger, v1 p.128-129; Open Book p.100-101; Auger 174.